Nicaj
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/nˈit͡sa͡ɪ/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Nicaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 191 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
191 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Nicaj
- Albanian:/nˈit͡sa͡ɪ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Nicaj is found
(measured from records)Nicaj counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 191 | Nicaj | 30 |
| AL Albania | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nicaj | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | — | — | — | Nicaj | 2 |
191 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nicaj?
- In Albanian /nˈit͡sa͡ɪ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nicaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 191 people named Nicaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicaj. After it come Albania, Switzerland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nicaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191 people named Nicaj in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nicaj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nicajThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nicaj” — ranked 95545th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.